Friday, February 15, 2008
Ninety-Eighth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Senate substitute amendment 1 to Senate Bill 457 offered by Senator Vinehout.
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 90
Relating to: commending students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin System campuses on Undergraduate Research Day.
By
Senator
Vinehout
; cosponsored by Representatives Rhoades and Nass.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 488
Relating to: the Physical Therapists Affiliated Credentialing Board.
By
Senators
Sullivan, Schultz, S. Fitzgerald and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Wieckert, Soletski, Strachota, Newcomer, Nygren, F. Lasee, Nelson, Davis, Moulton, Albers, Jeskewitz, Musser, Kaufert, Pridemore, Van Roy, Owens, A. Ott and Nerison.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation.
Senate Bill 489
Relating to: payment of a police officer's or fire fighter's salary after being charged with a misdemeanor or felony and discharged, and the adjournment of a trial or investigation relating to charges brought against a first class city police officer or fire fighter.
By
Senators
Grothman, Roessler and Carpenter; cosponsored by Representatives Gottlieb, Nass, Kerkman, Hahn, Vos, Kleefisch and LeMahieu.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing.
Senate Bill 490
Relating to: eliminating an assessment on the gross private patient revenue of hospitals, creating an assessment on the gross patient revenue of hospitals, creating a hospital assessment trust fund, increasing the Medical Assistance and Badger Care payment rate for hospitals, requiring monthly payments by health maintenance organizations to hospitals and reconciliation of payments with actual utilization of services, increasing supplemental Medical Assistance payments to rural hospitals, transferring moneys from the hospital assessment fund to the injured patients and families compensation fund, requiring the Department of Health and Family Services annually to submit a report for review by the Joint Committee on Finance, and making appropriations.
By
Senators
Breske, Kreitlow, Lassa, Lehman, Sullivan, Miller and Decker; cosponsored by Representatives Seidel, Schneider, Black and A. Williams.
To committee on Health, Human Services, Insurance, and Job Creation.
Senate Bill 491
Relating to: eliminating the study related to imposing local general property taxes on public utility property.
By
Senator
Plale
; cosponsored by Representative Honadel
.
To committee on Tax Fairness and Family Prosperity.
Senate Bill 492
Relating to: vacancies in appointive state offices.
By
Senators
Jauch and Miller; cosponsored by Representatives Sherman, Van Akkeren and Sinicki.
To committee on Ethics Reform and Government Operations.
Senate Bill 493
Relating to: providing information about suicide prevention to public and private school professional staff.
By
Senators
Lehman, Darling, Lassa, Plale, Risser and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Van Akkeren, Berceau, Hahn, Nygren, Pocan, Pope-Roberts, Sheridan and Turner.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 494
Relating to: changing the procedures for filling vacant civil service positions in the city of Milwaukee.
By
Senators
Taylor and Plale; cosponsored by Representatives Sinicki, Cullen, Fields, Grigsby, Lothian, Stone, Toles, A. Williams and Zepnick.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
Senate Bill 495
Relating to: providing services to homeless public school pupils and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Lassa and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Mason, Boyle, Parisi, Pope-Roberts, Sheridan, Soletski, Turner and Young.
To committee on Education.
Senate Bill 496
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Relating to: the consequences for failure to act within a time period specified in the Children's Code or the Juvenile Justice Code, extension of certain time periods specified in the Children's Code, and informal dispositions under the Children's Code.
By
Senators
Coggs and Darling; cosponsored by Representatives Jeskewitz and Grigsby.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing.
Senate Bill 497
Relating to: assistant district attorney positions and making an appropriation.
By
Senators
Sullivan, Taylor, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Darling, Plale, Kanavas, Harsdorf, Risser and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Staskunas, Hraychuck, Soletski, Richards, Jeskewitz, Nelson, Zepnick, A. Ott, Cullen, Berceau, Sinicki, Molepske and Hintz.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, and Housing.
Senate Bill 498
Relating to: possession of an electric weapon.
